Nick Zinner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five years later, and vice versa. I've learned there's no thing as a bad photo - every one is a personal record of a time and place.
-- Nick Zinner

#Thinking #Interesting
My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.
-- Nick Zinner

#People #My Favorite
The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.
-- Nick Zinner

#Taken #Exciting #Overwhelming
I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.
-- Nick Zinner

#Fans #Culture #Alternatives
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.
-- Nick Zinner

#Fans #Elements #Lines
It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.
-- Nick Zinner

#Cameras #Pockets #Helping
Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
-- Nick Zinner

#Photography #Laughing #Important
As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.
-- Nick Zinner

#Home #Past #Years
The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.
-- Nick Zinner

#Crazy #Play #People

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Nick Zinner famous quotes

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